Roque-Gutierrez, Ernesto Ibbotson, Paul
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Journal of experimental child psychology
We tested several hypotheses about the relation between syntax and working memory (WM). In a pretest/posttest randomized control trial, 104 native Cuban Spanish-speaking children (Mage = 7 years 2 months; 54 girls) took part in syntax training in their first language, syntax training in their second language, WM training, or no training (control). ...
Muraki, Emiko J Siddiqui, Israa A Pexman, Penny M
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Behavior research methods
Body-object interaction (BOI) ratings measure how easily the human body can physically interact with a word's referent. Previous research has found that words higher in BOI tend to be processed more quickly and accurately in tasks such as lexical decision, semantic decision, and syntactic classification, suggesting that sensorimotor information is ...
Mathée-Scott, Janine Larson, Caroline Venker, Courtney Pomper, Ron Edwards, Jan Saffran, Jenny Ellis Weismer, Susan
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
To efficiently learn new words, children use constraints such as mutual exclusivity (ME) to narrow the search for potential referents. The current study investigated the use of ME in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and neurotypical (NT) peers matched on nonverbal cognition. Thirty-two toddlers with ASD and 26 NT toddlers participated i...
Forssman, Linda Gottwald, Janna M
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Trials
The quality of children's early home learning environment has an influence on their cognitive development, preliteracy skills, and subsequent educational outcomes. Early intervention programs that promote positive parenting behaviors and child cognition have great potential to positively influence children's school readiness and thereby support soc...
McFayden, Tyler C Fok, Megan Ollendick, Thomas H
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
The current study investigated the impact of birth order on vocabulary and social language development in 1338 first-born and 1049 s-born autistic youth (M age = 9.03 years, SD = 3.57; 86.4% male) from the Simons Simplex Collection. Frequentist and Bayesian analyses revealed mixed findings in language development. There were no differences in vocab...
Werwach, Annika Männel, Claudia Obrig, Hellmuth Friederici, Angela D Schaadt, Gesa
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Developmental cognitive neuroscience
Infants rapidly advance in their speech perception, electrophysiologically reflected in the transition from an immature, positive-going to an adult-like, negative-going mismatch response (MMR) to auditory deviancy. Although the MMR is a common tool to study speech perception development, it is not yet completely understood how different speech cont...
Houweling, Tanja A. J. Oude Groeniger, Joost Jansen, Pauline W. van Lier, Pol Horoz, Nil Buil, Marieke van Lenthe, Frank J.
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International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Addressing socioeconomic inequalities in early child development (ECD) is key to reducing the intergenerational transmission of health inequalities. Yet, little is known about how socioeconomic inequalities in ECD develop over the course of childhood. Our study aimed to describe how inequalities in ECD by maternal education develop from ...
Romeo, Rachel R Choi, Boin Gabard-Durnam, Laurel J Wilkinson, Carol L Levin, April R Rowe, Meredith L Tager-Flusberg, Helen Nelson, Charles A 3rd
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
In this study we investigated the impact of parental language input on language development and associated neuroscillatory patterns in toddlers at risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Forty-six mother-toddler dyads at either high (n = 22) or low (n = 24) familial risk of ASD completed a longitudinal, prospective study including free-play, restin...
Suppanen, Emma Winkler, István Kujala, Teija Ylinen, Sari
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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Infants are able to extract words from speech early in life. Here we show that the quality of forming longer-term representations for word forms at birth predicts expressive language ability at the age of two years. Seventy-five neonates were familiarized with two spoken disyllabic pseudowords. We then tested whether the neonate brain predicts the ...
Bastianello, Tamara Keren-Portnoy, Tamar Majorano, Marinella Vihman, Marilyn
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Infant behavior & development
Although the pattern of visual attention towards the region of the eyes is now well-established for infants at an early stage of development, less is known about the extent to which the mouth attracts an infant's attention. Even less is known about the extent to which these specific looking behaviours towards different regions of the talking face (...
